Swimply, a marketplace for renting private swimming pools, raises $40M led by Mayfield, seven months after raising $10M (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)

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Swimply, a marketplace for renting private swimming pools, raises $40M led by Mayfield, seven months after raising $10M — The concept of creating a marketplace for underutilized assets that can turn into a meaningful business for hosts is not a new one. And there is no higher profile of how successful that model can be than Airbnb.